From September 17-20 2018, Legal Development Program members and AIP Foundation attended the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) workshop “Improving Road Safety Legislation” in Beijing. Throughout the four-day workshop, which focused on “Safe Systems Approach,” participants worked in groups to identify in-country opportunities for long term capacity building and to develop action steps for 2019.

AIP Foundation’s Street Wise consultant Thiratee Chaijaree joined more than 20 representatives from government agencies and civil society organisations including Songkhla Provincial Land Transport Office and the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Regional Center 12 Songkhla to improve public transport safety in the lower southern region of Thailand at a meeting held by the Consumer South Network in Songkhla. The working group meeting aimed

100 teachers from four target schools in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar attended Safety Delivered workshops held over two days. Training content included basic road safety knowledge, correct helmet use, promotional techniques and suggestions for class lessons. Discussions also covered possible difficulties that could be encountered during implementation and methods for finding solutions to deal with problems

Safety Delivered road safety ambassadors from six project universities in Ho Chi Minh City gathered in Binh Thanh District for a celebratory gala dinner to celebrate their hard work and to renew their commitments for the upcoming program period. AIP Foundation staff organized interactive peer-peer activities for over 100 road safety ambassadors and university coordinators including singing,

Four months after the Legal Development Program’s Seminar on School Bus Safety and Standards, five organizations including the Department of Land Transport (DLT), the Ministry of Education, the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), the Road Safety Group Thailand, and Taxi-Beam met to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the “School Bus be Safe

AIP Foundation returned to Nakhon Si Thammarat province this week to provide road safety training to 210 parents from two of our Helmets for Kids program schools. The training, which was presided over by Chief of Tha Pair Subdistrict Municipality Jarun Jiajirapattanan, focused on helping the parents learn about the program and assess common everyday risks when using

  AIP Foundation and Legal Development Program (LDP) members recently attended the first preparatory meeting for the 14th Thailand Road Safety Seminar, a bi-annual national event which will be taking place in November this year. The objective of the first meeting was to outline the agenda and set up a working group. LDP is a collaboration between AIP Foundation

This summer, we launched a series of community road safety outreach events beginning in mid-July as part of our Walk Wise program in China. By the end of August, we held four events in five communities in Nanba Town and the greater Xuanhan County in Sichuan Province. The safety director of Nanba, Mr. Yang, and Nanba police officers facilitated

AIP Foundation presented at The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) “Road Safety High Level Conference” in Gurugram, India on the topic of best practices in road safety policy and intervention. AIP Foundation’s Communications Coordinator Rhea Goveas presented the case study of Vietnam’s motorcycle helmet campaign and universal helmet law, in the context

We recently held an information session at Sukhothai School, one of the schools in Bangkok where the new speed limit 50 km/h was introduced this February. Led by Slow Down to Save Lives project coordinator Jarunee Jarusruangchai; Pisith Wongthiathana, a Legal Development Program member; and the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation’s Director of Legal Development and Consulting 2, the